December
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1/2. Man gets 5 years for
keeping 4 sons in filthy home…A father whose four young sons
could communicate only in grunts when authorities rescued them from
a filthy Denver apartment was sentenced to five years in prison
Tuesday by a judge who said he hoped it would send a message to
parents that they can't treat their children like
pets.Judge J. Eric Elliff said Wayne
Sperling, 67, made outrageous excuses for neglecting the boys to
the point where they could not recognize food and did not learn his
lesson after an earlier child-abuse conviction cost him custody of
three other children."The message is, you've got to
treat your children with dignity and respect," Elliff said.
"They're not pets. They are not possessions. They are human beings
that need to be carefully nurtured. That didn't happen
here."Prosecutors said Sperling, his
wife and the boys lived in an apartment where nearly every surface
was covered in cat feces and flies. The children, ages 2 to 6, were
malnourished when they were found on October 2013.Sperling's wife, Lorinda
Bailey, was sentenced to 90 days in jail and five years of
probation last month, and Sperling's attorney argued he should
receive a similar sentence. Prosecutors sought the maximum of seven
years in prison."They just weren't equipped to
be parents," defense attorney Betsy Atkinson said.But Elliff said the case was
more tragic because it wasn't a first for the family. The couple
lost custody of three other children amid similar allegations in
October 2006. The children mostly grunted and pointed to
communicate, and officers found a home full of trash and rotten
food. Bailey and Sperling pleaded guilty in June 2007 to
misdemeanor child abuse."There have been so many
failures on so many different levels," Elliff said. "Now we have
seven children who are going to be scarred by these early childhood
conditions".

ANON
(spike9w@yahoo.com) Dec 31st, 2014 @ 03:46
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2/2.In the most recent case,
an emergency room doctor suspected abuse when the youngest was
taken to the hospital for a cut on his forehead. The doctor noticed
he was unwashed, reeked of cigarette smoke and had bruises
consistent with pinching. That led authorities to the apartment,
where they found decomposing animals and about an inch of
solidified cat feces and urine beneath one of the boy's
beds.Sperling, mumbling, told the
judge to do "whatever you feel is right" when given a chance to
speak before he was sentenced.Prosecutors said it was one of
their most horrific cases they had ever seen, but Colorado's child
abuse laws kept them from pursuing harsher penalties because the
children didn't suffer serious physical injuries.After the boys were rescued and
given bagged lunches to eat, they acted as if they hadn't seen food
before, patting the sandwiches and playing with the apples, Deputy
District Attorney Anita Drasan said. An adult mimed eating an apple
to encourage them to eat; they licked the fruit instead, Drasan
said.The boys are improving while
living in foster care, but still struggle as a result of the
squalor. They have breathing problems and are sensitive to light,
requiring them to wear special glasses, Drasan said."They didn't smile, they didn't
laugh, and they lived in constant fear and were unable to express
themselves," Drasan said. And, reading a statement from their
foster mother, she added, "these are fighters and survivors. They
will grow to do great things. But they have a long battle before
them." Dec 2014

ANON
(spike9w@yahoo.com) Dec 31st, 2014 @ 12:12
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1/2. Child sex abuse 'in
every town'…Detective Superintendent Paul
Sanford said child sexual exploitation was taking place in "all
communities" across the countryIn the last 12 months a
"shocking" level of child sexual exploitation (CSE) has been
reported to police and cases of abuse had been hidden for too long,
a senior officer has acknowledged.Detective Superintendent Paul
Sanford said CSE was taking place in "all communities" across the
country.His comments were echoed by
Fleur Strong, director of Parents Against Child Sexual Exploitation
(Pace), who said acts of child abuse were taking place "in every
town".Police have seen a rise in
reports of CSE and other forms of abuse following the revelations
about sex gangs in Rotherham and Rochdale and historical cases
involving celebrities such as Jimmy Savile.Mr Sanford, a spokesman for the
national child protection working group, told BBC Radio 4's Today
programme: " Policing has done a huge amount in recent years,
despite significant challenges, to improve our response to all
forms of child abuse, not just child sexual
exploitation."Child sexual abuse has been
hidden in our society for too long and, certainly in recent months,
that picture has changed."The police is certainly now
committed to doing all we can to root out child sexual exploitation
and prevent more people from becoming victims."It is an abhorrent crime,
there is absolutely no doubt about that. We are learning lessons,
we have learned significant lessons from the past, but we are
absolutely committed to improving the police response to these
sorts of awful acts."He added: "The last 12 months
have been shocking, in terms of the scale. What we know is the
Office of the Children's Commissioner have estimated that there are
some 16,000 children at risk of CSE across the country.

ANON
(spike9w@yahoo.com) Dec 31st, 2014 @ 12:11
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2/2. "That CSE takes place
in all communities. There has been a model which has been
frequently reported in the media over the last 12 months linked to
cases such as Rotherham and Rochdale, but let's be clear: it takes
place in all communities, urban, rural, small and
large."I don't think there will be a
community that could not potentially be affected by
CSE." We are facing unprecedented
demand within policing. We know that, across most forces, reports
of abuse are going up by 17% year on year. That abuse is made up of
a number of things. Most recently we have seen increases in reports
of historic sexual abuse in institutions and also by well-known
personalities and by groups and gangs."There is nothing that causes
me to believe that situation is going to change and we are not
going to see a continuation of the level of
reporting."Pace said it had noticed an
increase in people using so-called "legal highs" to groom
youngsters for sex and the crime was widespread across
Britain.Ms Strong told Today: "I can
show you families from Torquay to Exeter to Norfolk, there are
families in Edinburgh, Belfast, all of them who will be suffering
from this type of crime that lasts, for many families, for years
and years."I would say that without doubt
there are thousands of families being affected today. I couldn't
tell you whether it is high or low, but it is a significant
number."This type of child abuse is in
every town."She added: "We are working in
areas like Exeter where we have one mother at the moment who is
having a very difficult time. Her daughter has turned 16, she has
been groomed, she has been groomed partly through legal highs,
which is something we are increasingly seeing being used by
perpetrators."So things that you could have
used to safeguard a child for instance, child abduction notices -
you can no longer use those if the child is 16 and living at home."
Dec 2014

ANON
(spike9w@yahoo.com) Dec 30th, 2014 @ 01:17
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1/2. Police investigating
718 cases of child abuse in Northern Ireland…Calls to local NSPCC helpline
show sharp rise…Police are investigating more
than 700 claims of child abuse in Northern Ireland, it can be
revealed.Officers are probing 718 "live"
cases where the victim was aged under 18.The figure is thought to
include a number of historic allegations relating to children's
care homes.It comes as a leading charity
revealed it has seen the number of calls to a specialist helpline
jump by almost a quarter in the last year.The issue of child abuse has
been in the headlines throughout 2014. A State inquiry into
historical abuse in Northern Ireland, chaired by retired judge Sir
Anthony Hart, opened in January.The inquiry, which has so far
been contacted by 524 individuals, has already heard harrowing
testimonies from victims.And in November a report
estimated that up to 145 children were at significant risk of
exploitation in Northern Ireland.The extent of the PSNI's child
abuse inquiries was revealed after a Freedom of Information
request.Police said the 718 cases were
live, meaning they were under active investigation.The number is understood to
include both current and historic allegations.Neil Anderson from NSPCC
Northern Ireland said the media focus on child abuse may have
persuaded people to come forward.He revealed that a specialist
helpline has seen a significant rise in calls in the last
year."The NSPCC recently established
a helpline team here in Belfast," he said. "Current call figures
show that of the 924 calls made by people in Northern Ireland to
the helpline in 2013/14, 536 (58%) were deemed so serious that they
were referred to social services and PSNI for further
intervention."The numbers are growing, with
23% (174) more calls made to the helpline from people in Northern
Ireland in 2013/14 than during the previous year"

ANON
(spike9w@yahoo.com) Dec 30th, 2014 @ 01:16
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2/2. SDLP MLA Dolores Kelly,
who sits on the Policing Board, said the figures were
appalling."It is extremely worrying to
learn the scale of abuse," she said."Unfortunately in some ways it
shouldn't surprise us. We have heard terrible stories in the news
about this issue."I'd be worried that a lot more
victims are suffering in silence and are not included in these
figures. The safeguarding of children is very important and we have
to work together to make sure we are doing everything we can to
tackle abuse."In November it was revealed
that police forces in England and Wales were investigating more
than 7,000 live cases of child sex abuse.Over 1,800 investigations are
active in London, with West Yorkshire police probing 1,100
allegations.Concerns over child sexual
exploitation in Northern Ireland were raised in a report
commissioned by Edwin Poots while he was Health Minister and
published in November.The paper by Professor Kathleen
Marshall revealed paramilitaries were using fear and intimidation
to sexually exploit children.It also uncovered cases
involving the military, revealing that soldiers had been
disciplined for smuggling girls into two different barracks in the
last three years.Her review estimated between
100 and 145 children were at significant risk of exploitation.
However, most people consulted by the inquiry said what is known is
likely to be the tip of the iceberg.In September 2013 the PSNI
began a major investigation into the sexual exploitation of
children and young people who went missing from care.At the time Mr Poots said the
abuse was on a scale not seen before in Northern
Ireland…Background..The Historical Institutional
Abuse Inquiry (HIA) is examining allegations of child abuse in
children's homes and other residential institutions between 1922
and 1995. It is the biggest child abuse public inquiry ever held in
the UK, having been contacted by 524 people who said they were
abused in childhood. Most complainants are from the UK, 65 are from
Australia and 26 from the Irish Republic. The HIA inquiry was set
up by the First and Deputy First Minister in May 2012. Its aim is
to establish if there were "systemic failings by institutions or
the state in their duties towards those children in their care".Dec
2014

ANON
(spike9w@yahoo.com) Dec 30th, 2014 @ 01:07
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Child abuse: Media coverage
of high-profile cases has given more children courage to seek
help…Over the last few years the
news agenda has been flooded with reports of large-scale sexual
abuse including the horrendous actions of Jimmy Savile and accounts
from victims giving evidence to the Historical Institutional Abuse
Inquiry here.While the figure of 718 ongoing
sex abuse investigations by the PSNI is a stark statistic which
highlights, to a degree, the scale of this heinous crime, the
figures need to be seen in context.There is reason to believe that
media coverage of high-profile cases may be encouraging victims to
come forward in the confidence that they will be
believed.Changes to the child protection
reporting systems in Northern Ireland have also made it easier for
victims to disclose abuse.We also know that sexual
offences involving children and young people reported to the PSNI
over the last decade have shown an increase from 875 in 2002/03 to
1,182 in 2012/13.This should not necessarily be
taken to mean that there has been an increase in child
abuse.More and more children and
young people are demonstrating the courage and confidence to come
forward and report the abuse they have suffered.It is important also to look
into the nature of these reported cases and their relationship with
the offender.The majority of offenders will
be known to the victims, many of them will be peers, with the abuse
by strangers making up 30% of reports to the police.We have also recently seen
coverage of child sexual exploitation - this is an emerging issue
for our young people, as are the risks in the online
world.All of these factors suggest
that we must redouble our efforts to help educate children and
young people to keep them safe, empower them to seek help and
ensure that all cases are investigated thoroughly and those who
prey on and abuse vulnerable children and young people must be
prosecuted.An increase in reporting abuse
should be welcomed.We also need to ensure that
young people and their parents can access sources of help when they
need it. Statistics tell only one part of the story.But they also remind us of what
we still have to do in this important journey to protect our
children and young people from harm.Neil Anderson is head of
service for NSPCC Northern Ireland. December 2014

ANON
(spike9w@yahoo.com) Dec 30th, 2014 @ 01:04
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Child abuse: Bathed in
disinfectant, whipped with kettle flexes, beaten and forced to eat
vomit,victims' harrowing testimonies…Harrowing accounts of how
children were beaten and abused in care homes in Northern Ireland
have dominated the news during 2014.The Historical Institutional
Abuse Inquiry is investigating allegations between 1922 and
1995.It was set up by the Executive
to investigate institutions run by the State and churches or owned
by the private sector or voluntary bodies. Victims have given a
series of powerful testimonies of the abuse they suffered while in
care.The inquiry heard how children
at homes run by nuns were made to eat their own vomit.Some were also forced to bathe
in disinfectant and beaten for wetting the bed.Children at Sisters of Nazareth
properties in Derry were known by their numbers rather than their
names.Abuse included physical
assaults using sticks, straps and kettle flexes.Another former resident
described how nuns' treatment of children at Termonbacca care home
"bordered on the psychotic".He described the home as a
"hell-hole" and likened it to a concentration camp.Children were forced to clean
floors in a chain, with their arms linked and rags under both feet,
he recalled.He also told the inquiry that
the nuns used to bath the children in Jeyes fluid, claiming: "It
was kind of like a Zyklon B gas chamber."A female witness also told how
she was beaten black and blue by nuns but didn't tell anyone for
fear that she would be killed.The woman, now 58, lived in
Nazareth House in Derry from 1957 until 1969.She recalled a "cruel" nun who
beat her.The woman said: "She would
punch or hit with a black belt she wore around her waist, or a
stick. She would just lose her temper."I tried to grab whatever she
had in her hand and she just said 'Don't grab it, there's nails in
it' and I was black and blue."The inquiry has also heard how
sex abuse was rampant at Rubane House in Co Down.Around a fifth of boys were
subjected to sexual or physical abuse, equal to if not worse than
that at another notorious home, Kincora in east
Belfast.Three De La Salle Order
Brothers were charged but none convicted after their trials did not
go ahead due to legal issues.The inquiry has also heard how
131 children, some as young as five, were sent to Australia as
child migrants.One told how he was allowed to
believe he was an orphan for over four decades.He was 48 years old when he
discovered that his mother was still alive.Dec 201

ANON
(spike9w@yahoo.com) Dec 29th, 2014 @ 12:02
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Southend teacher Martin
Goldberg 'betrayed' school…A head teacher has described
the "utter shock and betrayal" he felt on discovering a
long-serving teacher was a paedophile.In the Thorpe Hall School
newsletter, Andrew Hampton revealed how he was taken in by deputy
head Mark Goldberg.The teacher was found dead at
his home in September by police investigating information uncovered
in Canada.Images of boys undressing at
the Southend school and at a leisure centre were found on his
computer.Goldberg, 46, who had taught at
Thorpe Hall School for 23 years, was found dead on 10 September, a
day after he was interviewed by Essex Police officers.At that stage police were
refused a search warrant of his home by magistrates. He was not
arrested due to a lack of evidence.Essex Police later found 75
indecent images from the changing rooms of the independent school
on his computer.A further 465 were found to
have been taken at the leisure centre's swimming pool and 38 at
"two other locations".Police said both stills and
videos had been made from a camera concealed inside a bag from 2000
onwards and were of boys aged between nine and 12.Mr Hampton said the discovery
of Goldberg's body had been "incredibly emotional" for everyone at
the school."But our grief turned to utter
shock and betrayal when I was told what he had been doing," he
said."Staff and I have wrestled with
the question of whether we should have had any suspicions. But we
were all deceived," said Mr Hampton."There was no indication that
Mr Goldberg was leading a double life."The school had not received any
complaints about Goldberg's conduct.Mr Hampton added he had been
assured by the NSPCC that such a lack of awareness about Goldberg's
double life was typical.Earlier that year, the school's
safeguarding procedures had been approved by the Independent
Schools Inspectorate, but the NSPCC has been invited to work with
staff.It has emerged Essex Police
were told in November 2013 about Goldberg buying videos of naked
boys.The ten-month gap between them
being given this information and interviewing Goldberg has been
referred to the Independent Police Complaints Commission for
scrutiny.The case also highlighted
delays in the way British police forces failed to act on
information about suspected paedophiles passed to them by Canadian
authorities.The National Crime Agency took
a year to pass on the Goldberg tip-off.December 29

ANON
(spike9w@yahoo.com) Dec 23rd, 2014 @ 08:55
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Teacher Jailed For 13 Years
For Sex Assaults…“The true number of Charles
Napier's crimes could run into the hundreds with some of his
victims as young as eight”...A former treasurer for the
Paedophile Information Exchange has been jailed for 13 years for 31
sexual offences against boys.Charles Napier, 67, who is
related to Conservative MP John Whittingdale, was told by Judge
Nicholas Loraine-Smith at Southwark Crown Court he had "gravely
abused" his duty of care at a school in West Sussex.Napier was described as a
"brazen" and "opportunistic" offender, who abused 21 boys all under
the age of 16 whilst he was teaching between 1967 and
1972.On Tuesday he entered guilty
pleas to a further two indecent assault charges, which involved two
13-year-old boys in the late 1970s and 80s at his home in Thames
Ditton, Surrey.It is thought the true number
of his offences runs into the hundreds.Napier's youngest victims were
eight years old. Despite that, he told police he believed he was in
"relationships" with them and was "very fond" of them
all.Much of his abuse took place in
a workshop, where he would roll out a mattress and give boys
chocolate biscuits and alcohol before the assaults
began.Napier, who has seven previous
convictions for indecent assault, left the school suddenly in 1972
after a complaint from a boy resulted in an
investigation.The 67-year-old then joined the
Paedophile Information Exchange, where he claimed he wanted to meet
"like-minded people" to see how they "coped" with being attracted
to children.Benjamin Hargreaves, acting for
Napier, told the court he was "genuinely remorseful for his ghastly
actions", but that he had been a young man who was out of control
at the time of the offending.His sentence was less severe
than it might have been because he entered guilty pleas at the
earliest opportunity, to save his victims further trauma, Mr
Hargreaves said. December 24

ANON
(spike9w@yahoo.com) Dec 23rd, 2014 @ 01:01
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1/1 Nazareth House abuse
survivor's remarkable memoir now on best-sellers list…For 17 years she was referred
only as 'Number 51'…But the little girl who grew up
unloved and neglected in an orphanage - now under scrutiny in a
major Government investigation - has had the last
word.Marie Therese Rogers-Moloney's
heartrending story of the physical and emotional abuse she
experienced at the Catholic Church-run Nazareth House and the
search for her parents has resulted in success as a best-selling
writer.The Belfast woman's memoir. For
The Sins Of My Mother is currently in the top 10 in the best
selling list in Eason's.The book, which she started to
write over 20 years ago, has sold more than 800 copies in just
three weeks after being launched by publisher Colourpoint Books at
Belfast Castle last month.The retired nurse and
administrative officer will be one of a number of adults cared for
by The Sisters of Nazareth congregation at Nazareth House to give
evidence at the Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry next
year.The memoir tells of how she was
allocated the number in place of her birth name - which today
includes the surnames of both parents - and how she was labelled as
"educationally subnormal" by the nuns who looked after her when she
retreated into silence in order to escape any mistreatment.
Yesterday she told the Belfast Telegraph: "Not all the nuns were
bad, but there were three nuns who were just plain cruel and there
was no need for it."You may not be able to see the
scars which the experience had on me, but it has affected me my
whole life."Her mother Josie Rogers, a
widowed hotel owner from Donegal, got pregnant after a relationship
with a visiting water engineer, Denis Moloney from Limerick, in the
1950s

ANON
(spike9w@yahoo.com) Dec 23rd, 2014 @ 12:59
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2/2 Just days after having
Marie Therese, she told the staff at the Lisieux Nursing home on
Clifton Street that she needed to get out, and she never came
back.Marie Therese's mother was 37
when she had her - ironically the same age that she was when she
discovered her mother was still alive.However, a teacher at the
special education school that Marie Therese attended took a liking
to her and visited her one day."All I knew was that I was
taken away and scrubbed clean to perfection," she
explained."Then this beautiful green
velvet dress was produced and I was dressed in it before I met Mrs
McHugh."She later found out that the
dress was sent by her mother, who also sent the nuns money, but the
money and this information had been kept from her.The teacher eventually told
Marie Therese in a letter who her mother, was and that she could be
found in Letterkenny Hospital.Marie Therese added: "When I
got this letter, rage took over. God Almighty, I was so angry, all
the emotions started flooding in. I thought that I wanted to
strangle her, I wanted to wring her neck."But when I went to the
hospital with two of my friends, what I saw there I wasn't prepared
for."Fact file:For The Sins Of My Mother is a
memoir written by Marie Therese Rogers-Moloney, one of the children
who attended Nazareth House orphanage in south Belfast from the
1950s, a residential institution that is now under scrutiny in the
Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry. Published by Colourpoint
Books, it's priced at £9.99 and is available at Eason's,
Waterstones and online from Amazon. December 2014

ANON
(spike9w@yahoo.com) Dec 23rd, 2014 @ 12:26
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Boy, 17, admits lying about
Amelia Jones's death…A teenager has admitted lying
to police about the death of a six-week-old girl.The 17-year-old, who cannot be
named, pleaded guilty to perverting the course of justice over the
death of Amelia Jones at Cardiff Crown Court on
Monday.Amelia was found with serious
injuries at a house in Cwmbran in November 2012.The boy was released on bail
and will be sentenced at Cwmbran Youth Court in January. Amelia's
grandfather Mark Jones, 45, has denied her murder and will stand
trial in 2015.The boy admitted "giving a
false account to police" when he was questioned about her death.
December 23

ANON
(spike9w@yahoo.com) Dec 23rd, 2014 @ 12:23
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Entertainer Mark Whincup
admits child abuse images and drugs charges…A north Wales children's
entertainer has pleaded guilty to a series of charges relating to
child abuse images and drug offences.Mark Whincup, 50, admitted 20
charges at Mold Crown Court on Monday.Remanding him in custody, Judge
Niclas Parry described it as a worrying case.Whincup, who performed under
the name 'Magic Mark', was told he will be sentenced in
January.As well as being a children's
entertainer and magician, Whincup worked with the drug and alcohol
agency, CAIS.One campaign he was involved in
was called "Don't Touch, Tell" - warning children of the dangers of
drug needles.Whincup, from Rhos-on-Sea,
Conwy, pleaded guilty to four charges of distributing indecent
images of child, nine charges of making indecent images of
children, one charge of possessing 117 indecent images, and one
charge of possessing 743 indecent movie images.He also pleaded guilty to two
charges involving possessing extreme images depicting sex acts
between people and animals, and three charges of supplying the
class A drug methamphetamine also known as crystal
meth.All the offences occurred
between January 2012 and July 2014. December 2014

ANON
(spike9w@yahoo.com) Dec 23rd, 2014 @ 12:18
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School Cleaners Who Raped
Boy, 6, Jailed…The suspects were convicted of
raping a six-year-old boy 13 times, as his parents sue the
exclusive private school for £80m.Four caretakers at an exclusive
school in Indonesia who repeatedly raped a six-year-old boy have
been jailed.Each of the men were sentenced
to eight years in prison, and ordered to pay a £5,100 fine, after
being "proven legally and convincingly guilty of committing sexual
abuse and violence on minors".Another suspect, a woman, was
jailed for seven years for "assisting in violence and the sexual
abuse of children".

One cleaner, a woman, was
jailed for seven years for her involvementPolice say a sixth cleaner
committed suicide by drinking bathroom cleaner while in
custody.The victim's family are now
suing the Jakarta International School – favoured by expats and
wealthy Indonesians or $125m (£80m).Lawyers for the five plan to
take their appeal to the High Court, and claim the verdicts were
unfair because medical reports found the boy had suffered no major
injuries.However, prosecutors stated
that the boy had been raped 13 times.A Canadian teacher, Neil
Bantleman, along with an Indonesian teaching assistant, is on trial
separately, accused of abusing the young boy along with two other
students. Both deny the charges against them. December
23

ANON
(spike9w@yahoo.com) Dec 23rd, 2014 @ 12:16
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Child abuse inquiry: Police
probe call from MP Jonathan Evans…Police investigations into
claims of historical child abuse should "take precedence" over a UK
government-ordered inquiry, a Welsh MP says.Cardiff North MP Jonathan Evans
said it was "a tragedy" there was no agreement on who should chair
the inquiry, set up after claims of paedophiles operating in
Westminster in the 1980s.The Conservative MP said cases
should be investigated by the police first.Child abuse survivors have
urged the government to scrap the inquiry.Instead, they want it replaced
with a more powerful body.It comes after Home Secretary
Theresa May told inquiry members their panel might be
disbanded.The Met Police said earlier
this month that detectives were investigating three alleged murders
as part of their investigation into historical child
abuse.Mr Evans, who is chairman of
the Welsh Tory party and a former deputy chairman of the Welsh
NSPCC council, said: "Now I hear that a number of the groups who
are representing victims have suggested the whole of the process
should be stopped and a different sort of inquiry
created."I don't know exactly what the
terms of that inquiry should be and I'm not really sure what they
mean by setting up a stronger inquiry because I think the inquiry
that was being set up was a pretty strong one."He said ongoing police
inquiries introduced a "new dimension", and that they appeared to
be proceeding on the basis of new evidence "in which the police
have already made it clear to the media that there are real issues
that are being investigated"."It seems to me that those
police inquiries have got to now take precedence. We ought not to
have a situation in which we set up an inquiry and then we can only
do half the job because police inquiries are ongoing."Mr Evans, who was a Wales
Office minister in the 1990s when the UK government set up the
Waterhouse inquiry into abuse allegations at children's homes in
north Wales, added: "It seems to me that the police inquiries are
now at the forefront."He said Mrs May should not be
blamed for delays to the inquiry, which has been held up by the
resignation of her first two choices of chairperson.Victims must have confidence in
the process, Mr Evans said, "and so the reason we are in the
situation we are in is that we are struggling to find a chairman
that the victims' groups will have confidence in". December
23

ANONA
(spike9w@yahoo.com) Dec 23rd, 2014 @ 12:05
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School Cleaners Who Raped
Boy, 6, Jailed…The suspects were convicted of
raping a six-year-old boy 13 times, as his parents sue the
exclusive private school for £80m.Four caretakers at an exclusive
school in Indonesia who repeatedly raped a six-year-old boy have
been jailed.Each of the men were sentenced
to eight years in prison, and ordered to pay a £5,100 fine, after
being "proven legally and convincingly guilty of committing sexual
abuse and violence on minors".Another suspect, a woman, was
jailed for seven years for "assisting in violence and the sexual
abuse of children".

One cleaner, a woman, was
jailed for seven years for her involvementPolice say a sixth cleaner
committed suicide by drinking bathroom cleaner while in
custody.The victim's family are now
suing the Jakarta International School – favoured by expats and
wealthy Indonesians or $125m (£80m).Lawyers for the five plan to
take their appeal to the High Court, and claim the verdicts were
unfair because medical reports found the boy had suffered no major
injuries.However, prosecutors stated
that the boy had been raped 13 times.A Canadian teacher, Neil
Bantleman, along with an Indonesian teaching assistant, is on trial
separately, accused of abusing the young boy along with two other
students. Both deny the charges against them. December
23

ANON
(spike9w@yahoo.com) Dec 23rd, 2014 @ 11:36
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1/4 Please share this widely
and make our world a safer place for our children!One month ago, I sent a copy of
the following letter to every Rabbi of an Orthodox shul in
Baltimore.I received not a single
response to my letter; neither in writing, phone call, or
e-mail.Fifteen years ago, the
president of the Vaad Harabonim of Baltimore, Rabbi Yaakov Hopfer,
advised my family to cut me off unless I promise never to state
publicly that my father molested me.The problem is that my father,
is the principal of an elementary school inBaltimore, Torah Institute. My
father has never taken responsibility for hisactions and continues to work
with children.Please publicize this and hold
the Baltimore rabbis accountable to their words:

ANON
(spike9w@yahoo.com) Dec 23rd, 2014 @ 11:35
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2/4 To the Vaad Harabonim of
Baltimore, and The Baltimore Frum Community:Over twenty years ago, when I
disclosed that my father molested me, I was given the message that
I would be better off dead than speaking my truth.Back then, I believed the
message that the rabbonim and my family gave me, and at the age of
twenty two I survived a serious suicide attempt. A few years later,
I was told by Rabbi Hopfer, through my family, that unless I agreed
to keep quiet about my experiences I would receive the worst
punishment in the Torah; Kares.I could not survive and keep
silent, and so I lost everyone that I loved.On April 11, 2007, The Vaad
Harabonim of Baltimore issued a letter to the community where you
claimed to know something about child sexual abuse.(I am quoting
directly from that letter)"The greatest allies of the
abuser are ignorance and silence. The abuser thrives in an
environment where he is confident that his victims will not report
what they have experienced, or where their reports of abuse will
not be taken seriously."

The Vaad Harabonnim of
Baltimore have effectively created an environment where my father
is confident that any victim of his, who dares to come forward,(and
not many will dare, after the example you made of me) will not be
believed or taken seriously.You claimed in this letter that
survivors are:"so richly deserving of your
compassion and support."Yet, you abandoned me, and
continue to abandon me.You wrote that a single abuser
will often have many victims.Yet, you continue to allow my
father to be in a position of power and authority over innocent
children. You wrote in your letter:"The damage that abuse can
cause is devastating and potentially life altering; itcommonly ruins an individuals
sense of self, their ability to trust others, and their ability to
engage in a healthy intimate relationship."These things are all
true.

ANON
(spike9w@yahoo.com) Dec 23rd, 2014 @ 11:34
AM

3/4 I am, to this day, still
dealing with the after effects of the abuse that I
endured.You wrote that your own poskim
pasken that an abuser is a "rodef", that he is incapable of
teshuva, that publicizing his status as an abuser, while causing
enormous damage to his own family, may be the only way to truly
protect the community from him.You claim in your letter to
believe that abusers must be stopped, and that youhave made terrible mistakes and
that they haunt you. I am one of the mistakes that will haunt
you.I have nothing to
hide.I offered to speak with you, as
well as to allow you to speak with my therapist, and you ignored
me. My offer still stands.Everything you wrote in this
seven year old letter is true...and yet, you have not been capable
of applying it in a situation where you know and trust the
perpetrator.Dr. David Pelcovitz, a
community expert on this topic, often says that the closer you are
to the perpetrator, the more you can identify with him, the less
likely you will be to see the truth, and the stronger will be your
denial. You all know and trust my father. Some of you knew my
grandfather. None of you know me, as an adult, nor have you tried
to know me.You are all allies of an
abuser. You are all still failing to protect our children from
abuse.Some of you may not be aware
that I was not always considered crazy. I was actually, according
to my bosses at the time, Rabbi Velvel Rosen and Sara Itzkowitz,
one of the best pre-school teachers in T.I. That is, until I spoke
my truth and tried to get help.In Israel for the past nine
years, I ran a progressive and very successful early childhood
program: www.ganulpan.org

ANON
(spike9w@yahoo.com) Dec 23rd, 2014 @ 11:33
AM

4/4 When I heard about
Eliyahu Goode's death, I felt his neshama crying out to me and I
thought it was because he, like I, was also an abandoned victim of
childsexual abuse from our
community. It was only afterward that I realized thatEliyahu had been a student of
mine, when he was five, and I was twenty, and teaching pre-1-A at
Torah Institute. Eliyahu was a sweet boy, and a good boy. He too
needed and deserved your support.I know, Hashem knows, and
Eliyahu knows, that I am doing everything I can to express what he
and what so many other victims of child sexual abuse in the Torah
community can not say, because we have been silenced and shamed by
you, the rabbonim.I think it is a mistake for
rabbonim, or anyone else, to think that they can judgebetween me or my father, or
evaluate my mental status.The fact that my father has
more than one serious allegation against him, raises doubt about
his safety around children. Attacking an alleged victim's mental
health to prove non-credibility, is as ridiculous as saying that a
girl can't possibly be anorexic since she weighs seventy five
pounds and barely eats.It is a fact, that in many
cases, child sexual abuse and incest cause mental health issues,
just as anorexia causes weight loss. In my case, and all cases of
alleged child sexual abuse, assessing risk is appropriate. Judgment
is not.Hashem is unconditional love
and truth. Torah is truth and love. Truth and love are stronger and
far more enduring than power and control.Abusing your power and
authority to silence victims of child sexual abuse,as you have in my case, has
nothing to do with Torah, and should not, and will not,
last.Sincerely,Genendy Eisgrau

ANON
(spike9w@yahoo.com) Dec 22nd, 2014 @ 07:41
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1/2. Child sex abuse police
officer Nick Lidstone sentenced…A judge who sentenced a
paedophile police officer to 14-and-a-half years in jail questioned
how he had kept his job despite previously being caught taking
photographs of children.Cambridgeshire Police sergeant
Nick Lidstone has admitted a series of rapes and child sex attacks
on a victim.Norwich Crown Court heard
Lidstone had been arrested eight years earlier for taking
"up-skirt" pictures of children.The 54-year-old had been given
a conditional discharge in 2005.Lidstone, who had taken the
pictures using a spy pen in a branch of Tesco, had not been placed
on the sex offenders' register as he had never been charged with an
offence.He had kept his job after
agreeing to have counselling. All of his most serious abuse
happened after this offence.In placing him on the sex
offender's register for life, Judge Anthony Bate said because
Lidstone was only convicted of a public order offence a chance to
detect his abuse was missed.He told Lidstone: "Why on earth
you were not charged under the sexual offences act, I do not
know."Whoever took that decision, it
allowed you to carry on as a police officer."

ANON
(spike9w@yahoo.com) Dec 22nd, 2014 @ 07:39
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2/2. Cambridgeshire Police
Chief Constable Simon Parr said: "At the time of the offences in
2005, the case was reviewed and the then Deputy Chief Constable
decided Lidstone be placed on restricted duties."If we were faced with the same
decision today, a more severe sanction would be
imposed."Alec Wood, Deputy Chief
Constable of the force, said Lidstone's sentence reflected "the
horrendous nature" of his crimes.He said police would always
investigate cases about the conduct of their officers "thoroughly
and ensure any offenders are brought to justice."At an earlier hearing,
Lidstone, from Heslerton Way, Barrington, Cambridgeshire, had
pleaded guilty to 13 offences including three counts of rape, three
counts of indecency with a child, various sexual assaults and
taking an indecent photograph of a child.Prosecutor Andrew Shaw said
Lidstone had started grooming the victim when she was
nine.The victim, who cannot be named
for legal reasons, earlier this year reported years of abuse which
culminated in being raped as an adult.She was unable to make a
statement to court as she was so distressed the thought of it "made
her physically sick"."This was serious sexual
assault," Mr Shaw said.One witness who knew the victim
described how her life had been "ruined"."She has never been able to
integrate or make friends," he said.Lidstone broke down in tears in
the dock as details of his abuse were read out.Kerry Broome, mitigating, said
Lidstone had been "infatuated".She said: "He is very well
aware of the shame he has brought on the police force and his 30
years of service are over."Lidstone pleaded not guilty to
two counts of indecency with a child, two counts of indecent
assault, one count of sexual assault and one count of assault by
penetration. 22 December

ANON
(spike9w@yahoo.com) Dec 22nd, 2014 @ 07:30
PM

The round-the-clock
Childline telephone service has been rescued…The announcement by the Irish
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (ISPCC) comes
following an appeal last October for help to stave off the threat
closure because of financial difficulties.Childline has been taking calls
from lonely and distressed children and young people for 26 years,
but in October the ISPCC warned that the 45,000 calls the service
is answering by night would go unanswered next year if it failed to
raise €1.2m.ISPCC Acting CEO Caroline
O'Sullivan told RTÉ News the public appeal had raised €400,000 this
year, while securing pledges of €300,000 for next
year.Ms O'Sullivan said €200,000 of
the total had come from corporate donations.In addition, Minister for
Children and Youth Affairs Dr James Reilly announced his department
and the charity have reached a funding agreement spanning this year
and next, but he did not put a figure on the amount
involved.However, it is understood the
annual government contribution will be between €100,000 -
€200,000.Dr Reilly also welcomed a
further agreement involving his department, the Child and Family
Agency, Tusla and the ISPCC to cooperate in the area of child
protection.This will include exploring the
enhanced use of technologies to assist with the statutory roll-out
of this year's Children First Bill.The legislation will require
organisations serving children to keep them safe and to produce a
Child Safeguarding Statement.It will also require defined
categories of persons to report child protection concerns over a
defined threshold to the Child and Family Agency, while obliging
those persons to assist the agency in the assessment of a child
protection risk, if the agency requests them to do so.The Minister added the ISPCC
had also agreed to provide information on an on-going basis to his
department and the Department of Health regarding ‘hidden harm’
issues reported to Childline.He said the information would help to
identify the needs of children and young people within their
families and the level of that need.Dr Reilly said Childline has
considerable experience in being the 'listening ear' to concerns of
children and young peopleUnderlining the generous public
response to October's emergency appeal, Mr Flinter said the
minister had stated he values Childline's importance and that his
department would work with the charity to ensure that Childline
remains an around-the clock service. 22 Dec

1/2.. Child abuse inquiry:
Three MPs and three peers named in paedophile dossier handed to
Scotland Yard…

The dossier, which has been
compiled by Labour MP John Mann, contains a total list of 22
high-profile figures deemed “worthy of investigation,” following
the detailed examination of hundreds of pieces of evidence
presented to him by members of the public, The Sunday Times
reports.Mr Mann told the newspaper the
dossier names 12 former ministers, several of whom he believes were
“definitely child abusers” and at least two of which are alleged to
have assaulted boys at the Dolphin Square “abuse
parties”.He believes that the evidence
presented against half of those on the list is “very compelling”
and that some could “definitely be prosecuted”.The MP said he had investigated
claims made against many other names but did not believe the
evidence was “sufficiently strong enough” to pass onto police. He
revealed he had also been told of allegations that an organised
crime ring and one celebrity had been involved in the trafficking
of young boys across London to the abuse parties in Dolphin
Square.

ANON
(spike9w@yahoo.com) Dec 22nd, 2014 @ 12:47
PM

2/2.. The development
follows Thursday’s news that the Metropolitan police are
investigating allegations that three young boys, who are believed
to have been physically and sexually abused at the hands of
Westminster MPs in the 1970s and 80s, were murdered by the VIP
paedophile ring following the evidence of a “credible”
witness.Police have made a dramatic
appeal for witnesses and victims of abuse to come forward after
their witness, known only as Nick, claimed that during his years of
abuse at the hands of Conservative politicians, he saw a
Conservative MP strangle a boy to death during a sex attack. He
claims a second boy was killed in a brutal physical attack and that
a third was deliberately run down by a car driven by one of the
perpetrators, which he took to be a warning not to speak of the
abuse to anyone.Nick, who claimed to have been
abused from the age of seven to 16 at several abuse parties held at
Dolphin Square in London, and other properties including military
bases, came forward to police after detailing his story to
investigative journalism news site Exaro.The Labour MP’s dossier is set
to be followed by a second document concerning an alleged cover-up
of the investigation into VIP paedophile rings in the 1980s,
compiled by former police officers, Exaro has
revealed.The second dossier is borne out
of claims made on a private online forum that that police
operations against VIP paedophiles had been shut down just as they
had begun to uncover child sex abuse by prominent people. It will
be delivered to Met police commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe.
December 22

ANON
(spike9w@yahoo.com) Dec 21st, 2014 @ 09:33
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1/2 Letter to Irish
Times….

Sir,

Finalised terms of reference
for a mother & baby home inquiry due last July will be
published by Children's Minister James Reilly in
January.

Though the terms are unknown,
the Bethany Home is to be included. A parallel institution, the
Magdalen Asylum (later Denny House) should be also. There are
indications, however, that institutions to which Bethany and
Magdalen children were sent, not included in the previous Redress
Act scheme, will be excluded (Dan Griffin report, Irishtimes.com,
December 16th).

For instance, the Nursery
Rescue Society took control of the lives of former Magdalen Asylum
residents and farmed them out, literally, to rural families. They
acted as child labourers and were generally shunned by the families
and schools to which they were sent. Many succumbed to alcohol and
other drugs as their lives afterwards fell apart. One survivor
spoke to Patsy McGarry earlier this year (July 8th). He is one of
the very few to have put his life together and thus able to speak
coherently about his experiences (that included discovering at age
58 he had an illegally exported and adopted twin sister). On
December 21st, Simon Carswell reported the contrasting experiences
of two brothers. One was successfully adopted